""The contribution which Philo of Alexandria made to spiritual religion has been largely overlooked, because attention has been focused on the philosophical significance of his thought. This was the aspect of his writings which won for him the interest of the Christian Fathers. At a time when they were eagerly seeking to bridge the gulf between the new religion and the old philosophy, which for many of them formed the chief content of their intellectual life, they found in Philo, the Jew, a thinker who had already attempted to reconcile the claims of reason and revelation. His attitude to the...
""The contribution which Philo of Alexandria made to spiritual religion has been largely overlooked, because attention has been focused on the philoso...
""In the preface to his Essays in Biblical Greek, the late Dr. Hatch speaks of these as being designed ""to point out to students of sacred literature some of the rich fields which have not yet been adequately explored, and to offer suggestions for their exploration."" This book is an attempt to deal with some of the matters which formed the subject of Dr. Hatchs investigation, and, indeed, owes its origin to the results at which that most independent and keen-minded scholar arrived as regards the special character of Biblical Greek. But while the writer began with a complete, though...
""In the preface to his Essays in Biblical Greek, the late Dr. Hatch speaks of these as being designed ""to point out to students of sacred literature...
""Ours is an age of new things. In no province is this more apparent than in that of New Testament interpretation. And no section of the New Testament continues to stimulate more revolutionary theories than the Pauline Epistles. It is true that discussions of authenticity have lost the importance assigned to them by scholars of the earlier time, like Baur, or by later critical investigators, like Van Manen. The emphasis has been shifted. The primary question at issue is the essential nature of St. Pauls view of the Christian faith."" -- From Chapter One
""Ours is an age of new things. In no province is this more apparent than in that of New Testament interpretation. And no section of the New Testament...
""No more fitting summary of the account given in Acts of the Early Christian movement could be found than the words of chap. xix. 20: 'So mightily did the message of the Lord grow and prevail.' The book intends to be a narrative of the victorious progress of the good news of Christ. Even those elements in it which fail to appeal to us were influential at the close of the first century A.D. This was what Christianity had achieved. It had come to occupy successfully the chief centers of the ancient world. It had spread from Jerusalem to Rome."" -- From Chapter 1
""No more fitting summary of the account given in Acts of the Early Christian movement could be found than the words of chap. xix. 20: 'So mightily di...
